One of the most mind-blowing images on Wikipedia is this one of the first ever Ferris Wheel from the Chicago World's Fair in 1893: https://upload.wikimedia.org

One of the most mind-blowing images on Wikipedia is this one of the first ever Ferris Wheel from the Chicago World's Fair in 1893: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/68/Chicago-ferris-wheel.jpg https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/68/Chicago-... Note how large the cars relative to the tiny people standing in them. This thing was unimaginably massive. It's easy to think of 1893 as being before the modern technological era, but we were more modern than most people like to think.